Word: countings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years after the publication of Philosophy 4, an equally vacuous but somewhat differently angled novel appeared about the Harvard undergraduate. This was The Count at Harvard by Rupert Sargent Holland, whose name seems justly to have escaped posterity. Perhaps the best comments on the value of this book are found scrawled inside the cover of the edition now in Lamont. Various undergraduates from the class of 1912 up to the present have inscribed their critical sentiments there: "Only on person ever read beyond the first chapter of this book. That was myself. Don't do it." And from a member...
...philosophy of the season seemed to be revenge UMass, and win the Big Three. But this in itself does not lead to a successful season, and next year, when the team is in the official Ivy League it will have to realize that a win over Dartmouth will count as much as one over Yale--no matter how unbelievable this may sound
...wish to bring "Eisenhower Republicanism" to Philadelphia. But he was unable to make the President of the U.S. an issue in the local campaign. Philadelphians knew that they had been getting good government, and they knew the veteran Dilworth far better than they knew amateur Longstreth. The final count: 420,099 for Dilworth to 288,646 for Longstreth. Although Dilworth's margin was less than Adlai Stevenson's Philadelphia margin over Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, it was the worst beating a Republican candidate for mayor of Philadelphia had ever taken...
...There has developed another school among the social scientists, and they gather facts with a vengeance. They count things and correlate things and obtain medians and means and standard deviations. This school flourishes most among, though it is not limited to, the educationalists; and though Johnny may not be able to read, he has been well counted and correlated . . . The fact-gathering becomes so elaborate and monumental that the problem which initiated it disappears along with any possible conclusion...
...candidates fared no better in incomplete returns in the local School Committee election. Incumbent Judson T. Shaplin '42, assistant dean of the School of Education, did gather 4490 votes on the first unofficial count, to lead all candidates, but only two other CCA men remained in the running for the other five posts...